Year? Mileage, number of owners ?
Too much missing info 🤔

 

uhhhhh no!
There was a recall on roof panels because of poor adhesion causing fastened panels to delaminate while traveling down the road.

And yes there are a chiton of issues with C6' s (as well as many 10-15yo Chevys).
Many are common and just ignored by gm while carried-on throughout the generation and sometimes carried into the next gen.

Just to name a few very common C6 failures:
Fuse block
Fuel level sensors
Water pump seal
Starter solenoid
Harmonic balancer
Lifters
Fuel pump relay wiring (see fuse block)
Shifter lock solenoid
Clutch pedal sensor
Clutch master cylinder
Rear axel bolt
Radiator cracking at platic seam.
Lower rad support is poorly designed and junk.

 

[QUOTE=C6Shark;1603480272]I want to know how others feel about the C6. I own one and I can honestly say that while it’s a beautiful car on the outside with a beast of an engine, the car was made like total crap!!! It truly has changed my mind on how poorly American made cars are.

1) my roof blew off on the highway going 80mph. Yes, you read that correctly, my roof!! Everything was latched on tightly, that wasn’t the issue. The roof where it has adhesive came apart leave just the outside in tact. They did a recall on this and Chevrolet told me to kick rocks and wouldn’t take care of the issue. They told me it’s not under my ViN but others yes. Yet the same exact problem happened to me.

You lost me on the first item. The roof CANNOT come off if it is properly latched down, unless someone (?) has f'd with the latches.

You need to sell the Vette and buy a mustang...

 

[QUOTE=buckmeister2;1603482355]i think he is talking about the outer layer not the entire top. The outer layer is glued down to the base and latching mechanism

 

His roof frame stayed attached to the car as the colored roof panel blew off. There was a recall on early C6's for the adhesive they used to attach the colored roof panel to the frame. His issue has nothing to do with the roof not being properly latched to the car.

 

Here's my theory on the roof: A PO of your vette became a member of the flying roof club and destroyed the roof. A replacement roof was purchased from eBay or similar and the replacement was one of the recalled roofs that found it's way back into the market. So the recalled roof delaminated because it had the manufacturing flaw and blew off. Bad luck on your part unfortunately and also explains why GM is unwilling to do anything because the roof that was originally shipped with the car wasn't defective. Or something like that.

 

Real easy on the roof problem, and although your car year did not have the problem, something happen to the old roof, and was replaced with a pull off roof from one of the cars that was on the recall. Hence when GM replaced the recall roofs, they where supposed to be destroyed, but many found there way out the back of the shops to be sold on Ebay instead.

I'm not going to let the cat out of the bag, but there is a way to tell the recall roofs from the non recall roofs, and trust me, if the roof delam'd on a 2009 car, it was not the original 2009 roof on the car.

As for rest of the car, kind of the norm on the C6 cars that are not well maintained garage queens, since many will buy a C6, not know that cost to upkeep them, and just sell them off from sticker shock/lack of funds to repair, leaving the problems up to the next owner to correct isntead.

I'm going to guess that you did not have a Pre-purchase inspection done on the car, since many of what you are gripping about now, would have been caught, and either car heavily discounted on selling price if you where to repair, or seller repairs such before you buy it.

As for the C6, considering that amount that GM value engineered the car to keep the production cost down from the start, and the 14 years since it was put together new, the maintenance bills on the C6 are not going to be cheap to own one since again, your dealing with a lot of value engineering and product obsolescence parts designed to be replaced long before even now.

 

[QUOTE=buckmeister2;1603482355]jeez, get a mit: The roof where it has adhesive came apart leave just the outside in tact.

The roof separated.

 

Sounds like you bought a cheap one that wasn't well maintained. Should have bought a cleaner one. My 3 have been pretty much problem free.

 

No. Delamination problem under recall.

Most, but not all of these were fixed pretty easy on.

ps. other people telling it like it is.

 

The flying roof club is nothing like the folks who have the delamination issue.

The delamination issue is still a recall, and the flying roof issue is still something we all are, perhaps subject to.


No matter how careful we are.

 

Discount Tire Sucks !

Oooo 😮 wrong thread.

 

Yes, you are correct! For everyone asking, majority of you are very far off. I bought this car BRAND NEW from the dealership, not a single mile on it. (2-3 miles to be exact), you get my point. The roof was properly attached. That stayed intact. It was the adhesive inner part “flying roof club” that happened and blew off. I’m honestly just very happy I didn’t kill someone. Going 85 on the highway and it just flew off. Scary situation for anyone behind me. GM didn’t even take a look at my car. I first had to call them and they said there was a recall on this but not my VIN. Made no sense whatsoever as this happened to me. My current issue on the car is a coolant leak. For all that are asking, it’s an 07 with 90K miles on it. I just bought a radiator for it hoping that’s the issue and getting it installed on Monday. I don’t know how I got so unlucky with this car. I owned a BMW E46 M3 before this and rarely had any issues. Love the look of the car which is why I kept it for so long, however, it’s just too many American made issues that keep creeping up on me. The fact that Chevrolet wouldn’t even honor the roof flying off was insane. I’d have to say the worst part of the car is the torque tube connector though. I attached a link above for everyone to see.

 

Posting "This car sucks, it's not good enough for me!" on any forum is a sure fire way to stir things up. Worked this time.

 

The last thing I want to do is troll anyone. This is pent up frustration from all these years of having this car. Like I said, it’s beautiful on the outside, the engine is a beast, but the American made issues are constantly creeping up and I just had to vent. I wanted to see if others were facing these issues. I kept quiet for 14 years.

 

Sorry for all the issues you are having. The reality is, whether you bought the car new yourself or not, you now have a 14 year old car. Things are going to happen. Some may never have problems with their cars, some may. I bought my 2008 with around 80K miles. It's also had some issues, but I fixed them and moved on. It doesn't matter whether you have a Chevy, Ford, Toyota, BMW, or Mercedes. When a car gets older, it will have issues creep up.

1. Buy a new roof and move on. You can get a nice transparent for less than $800 (used) and a nice regular one for $500 (used).

2. Fix it yourself, search the threads.

3. Buy some weather strip adhesive and fix it yourself. I have one place in my hatch on the halo where it comes off occasionally. Just been too lazy to get some adhesive out.

4. Buy a new ****.

5. Probably need to pull the under dash cover off and see what's going on up there.

6. Very common issue, and I've had it on mine. I fixed it for under $10 and about 2 hours of my time.


I hope you can get your car taken car of and then you will be all happy again... Until the next issue pops up...

 

Had mine for 15 years this month, had a couple issues. Nothing really major for 15 years. Mostly wear and tear items. I did have the roof issue twice within the first few months of having the car, but got fixed. No issues since the last fix.
I had a Mercedes SL 500 that was in the shop constantly. I kept it for 6 months and unloaded it. Every car manufacturer is going to have issues that affect some cars but not all.

 

Those pesky "American made" issues cost a hell of a lot less than "German made" or "Italian made" issues.

Honestly, WTF does "American made issue" mean? Any car made by any car manufacturer can have issues. The country of issue doesn't mean crap.

 

Yep - my thoughts exactly. I've had more bad experiences with foreign-made cars than American-made cars, which is why I only own American-made vehicles now. Got tired of the little gremlins that always popped up and cost a fortune to fix with the foreign jobs.

OP - you drew the short straw on your particular C6 and I'm sorry about that, but as you can tell and I can further attest to based on my experience with my C6, your experience is the exception and not the rule.

 

Ditto that. My experience is that whole Mercedes reputation for solid durability is nothing but fallacy. I owned an E430 Sport & was constantly taking that thing in for something or other. Finally after a year and untold thousands I threw in the towel. The only other cars I've ever owned that were worse were a Fiat I bought in my misguided youth, and my wife's Volvo V70 wagon. That thing was utter junk. Whether dealership or private garage, both shop time and parts for any Euro car are going to be 25-50% higher than pretty much anything out of Detroit and certainly much more than an 07 C6 that practically any shop in town can work on.